We see you – Sawubona, safe spaces and being human together in South Africa : an ethnographic probe into a fresh expression of church

dc.contributor.authorNell, Ianen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAldous, Benen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-20T09:20:00Z
dc.date.available2020-01-20T09:20:00Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionCITATION: Nell, I. A. & Aldous, B. 2019. We see you – Sawubona, safe spaces and being human together in South Africa : an ethnographic probe into a fresh expression of church. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 75(2):a5390, doi:10.4102/hts.v75i2.5390.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://hts.org.za
dc.descriptionPublication of this article was funded by the Stellenbosch University Open Access Fund.
dc.description.abstractSince the end of apartheid and the advent of democratic elections, South Africa has made great strides, but we still continue, at times, to be unable to practise sawubona. On one level, this is not surprising given our history of separateness. The article asks whether fresh expressions of church, such as the community supper at St Peters in Mowbray, Cape Town, indeed create a space for genuinely ‘seeing’ each other and practicing being human together. The article also explores some of the problems inherent in ethnographic work amongst the poor and the vulnerable by asking whether some types of ethnographic work actually practice a form of epistemic violence and muses upon the idea of the postcolonial gaze and ‘othering’ in ethnography in contexts of poverty in the global South. Can ethnography, in some cases, be a form of academic pornography?en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/5390
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent8 pages
dc.identifier.citationNell, I. A. & Aldous, B. 2019. We see you – Sawubona, safe spaces and being human together in South Africa : an ethnographic probe into a fresh expression of church. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 75(2):a5390, doi:10.4102/hts.v75i2.5390
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.4102/hts.v75i2.5390
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107366
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherAOSIS Publishing
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dc.subjectFresh Expressions (Organization)en_ZA
dc.titleWe see you – Sawubona, safe spaces and being human together in South Africa : an ethnographic probe into a fresh expression of churchen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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